Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: hwmon: ti,ina2xx: Add alert-polarity property

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 29/05/2024 16:01, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 5/29/24 00:07, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 29/05/2024 08:07, Amna Waseem wrote:
>>> Add a property to the binding to configure the Alert Polarity.
>>> Alert pin is asserted based on the value of Alert Polarity bit of
>>> Mask/Enable register. It is by default 0 which means Alert pin is
>>> configured to be active low. To configure it to active high, set
>>> alert-polarity property value to 1.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Amna Waseem <Amna.Waseem@xxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>   Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ti,ina2xx.yaml | 9 +++++++++
>>>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ti,ina2xx.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ti,ina2xx.yaml
>>> index df86c2c92037..a3f0fd71fcc6 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ti,ina2xx.yaml
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ti,ina2xx.yaml
>>> @@ -66,6 +66,14 @@ properties:
>>>       description: phandle to the regulator that provides the VS supply typically
>>>         in range from 2.7 V to 5.5 V.
>>>   
>>> +  alert-polarity:
>>
>> Missing vendor prefix.
>>
> 
> Are you sure you want a vendor prefix here ? Reason for asking is that
> many hardware monitoring chips have configurable alert or interrupt polarity,
> only the name is different. Some examples are the JC42.4 standard ("event
> polarity"), adt7410/adt7420 "interrupt polarity", MAX31827 ("alarm polarity"),
> or DS1621 ("output polarity"). We even have a vendor property, "adi,alarm-pol",
> used for MAX31827.

Hm, I just checked if this is already existing property, but indeed I
did not check other variants.

Indeed it could go to common properties - hwmon-common.yaml. But then
how about using strings (as I asked before...).

Best regards,
Krzysztof